. Animal activities : a first book in zoölogy. Zoology; Animal behavior. /iNIM^L /ICTIVITIES. palms, toes, finger Thev we could hasten only by rising on fingers and Should we so rise it is easy to see that the little and the thumb would not touch the ground, would hang as useless members behind the other fingers. Rising still more, the weight would rest wholly on the middle finger, and two more fingers would become useless. Something like this has prob- ably taken place gradually in the development of digi- tigrade feet. The Horse's Foot. The ancestry of the horse has been traced back very car


. Animal activities : a first book in zoölogy. Zoology; Animal behavior. /iNIM^L /ICTIVITIES. palms, toes, finger Thev we could hasten only by rising on fingers and Should we so rise it is easy to see that the little and the thumb would not touch the ground, would hang as useless members behind the other fingers. Rising still more, the weight would rest wholly on the middle finger, and two more fingers would become useless. Something like this has prob- ably taken place gradually in the development of digi- tigrade feet. The Horse's Foot. The ancestry of the horse has been traced back very carefully for thousands of years. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original French, Nathaniel S. (Nathaniel Stowers), 1854-. New York ; London : Longmans, Green, and Co.


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